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1930s, Aircraft, Art, Civil aviation, Ephemera, Periodicals, Pictures, Plots and tables

The greatest air service in the world

A follow-on of sorts to a recent post. Imperial Airways was Britain’s main international airline between 1924 and 1939. It enjoyed semi-official status, as it was subsidised by the British government, and had the contract to deliver air mail throughout the Empire. Another international airline was formed in 1935, British Airways,1 which serviced European routes

1930s, Art, Books

The Fall of London

Tate Online has a series of wonderfully melancholy lithographs by James Boswell, showing a collapse in law and order in London – mobs in the streets, bodies hanging from lampposts, looters in museums and so on. Collectively entitled The Fall of London, they were drawn in 1933 and it is suggested that they were intended

1930s, Art, Periodicals

Ban the Air Bomb!

Thanks to Chris Williams for pointing me in the direction of Patrick Wright’s article at openDemocracy about the Anti-Air War Memorial at Woodford Green, Essex. I hadn’t heard of this before. It was made by sculptor Eric Benfield in the form of a bomb falling through the air, and in June 1936 it was put

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